The sun given cheeks and a smile, radiating warmth on purpose rather than just heat. It's used for sunny-day happiness, describing someone as a ray of sunshine, and captions about lazy summer mornings â friendlier and more personal than the plain sun emoji's flat, no-nonsense weather-report energy.
What đ means
A large round surface, painted yellow throughout and detailed with an animated version of a human face. The circumference of this surface is lined with tiny, spoke-like triangles.
Although used to represent the sun, the đ Sun With Face emoji has more humanistic qualities/features. So, it may suggest a happy sun, thus meaning a human who's happy because of the sun/summer, interpretations like that.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone about the bright and warm weather outside, use đ. Like, "IT'S SUNNY!!!!! OMGGGG THE SUN IS FINALLY OUT AFTER FOREVER đđđđ".
- You can also use đ to refer to sunflowers or cartoon sunflowers, like daisy (the irony is beautiful). Use it in the captions for posts/reposts surrounding such themes.
- If you're trying to 'brighten up someone's day' or be a goof to cheer them up, anything that brings warmth to the other person's frame of mind, you can use đ. For example, "Oh, man. That's okay. I mean, look at me. I tanned so much, I'm practically THE sun rn đ".
- Coming to the most obvious and general use-case, Good Morning! Use đ while sending someone good morning messages or even while posting/reposting content that can make someone's day; it can be a pupper's video, a bear waving, a cute baby deer, etc.
Other Names
- đ The Sun With a Face
- đ Sun With Human Face
- đ Smiley Sun
- đ Smiling Sun
- đ Sunface
- đ Sun Face
- đ Sun With a Smiling Face
- đ Shining Sun With a Face
đ in real conversations
What's the difference between đ and the plain sun âī¸?
âī¸ is flat, literal weather-report energy â it just means sunny out, nothing more. đ adds cheeks and a smile, which pushes it toward describing a mood or a person rather than the forecast: sunny-day happiness, someone acting like a ray of sunshine, or an actually good morning rather than just a clear sky.
Why is đ the only moon-and-sun face that isn't nighttime?
Because it's paired with the daytime half of the sky rather than any of the eight lunar phases â đ, đ, đ and đ all belong to the moon-face family and its nighttime, sleepy-or-smug energy. đ stands alone as the daylight counterpart: bright, warm, upbeat rather than sly or drowsy.
Is calling someone đ a compliment?
Almost always â it's shorthand for 'ray of sunshine,' someone whose mood lifts a room just by being in it. Unlike đ's slightly oversized, borderline-unhinged grin, đ's smile reads as warm and genuine rather than exaggerated, which is why it lands as a sincere compliment rather than a joke.
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places âē sky & weather
- Codepoints
U+1F31E- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:sun_with_face:- Keywords
- beach, bright, day, face, heat, shine, sun, sunny, sunshine, weather
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⥠Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first â đ Sun with Face or đŊ Running Shirt?
Runs with a crowd
đ keeps company in space emojis and summer emojis and weather emojis â tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.